Buyer II

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

What will you do?

Supplier Management

· Rolls out and leads strategic discussions with suppliers – Align ABC stratification, lead time alignment, optimize On Time Ship Warehouse (OTS WHS) Schedule, MOQ and minimum review, efficient order quantity and pallet purchasing, and demand forecast with supplier production planning

· Conducts quarterly business review(s) with senior leaders (supply chain, commercial, and portfolio management) to set and agree upon goals, develop project plan on how to meet the goals, and review performance

· Owns and actively leads actions to drive service performance to meet/exceed both internal targets and end customer expectations

· Leads initiative to improve EDI accuracy with suppliers

· Leads Sales, Inventory and Operation Planning (SIOP) calls with suppliers

· Develops clear and concise performance improvement plans that communicate root cause, actions taken, and an accurate recovery date

Metric Management

· Attend stand up meetings, be prepared, communicate clearly and use meetings as a forum to address issues with cross functional areas.

· Responsible for PTO (Performance to Original) process to evaluate and control shipments from Thermo Fisher Scientific suppliers direct to end customers

· Apply all Microsoft Office tools and data mining tools (SQL and Cognos) to improve service levels and outages

· Supports inventory management through supplier engagement for return execution

Relationship Management

· Controls internal vendor settings and tables

· Performs ad hoc reporting and projects

· Participates in continuous improvement projects and lean philosophy initiatives

· May provide training and/or mentoring to new employees

How will you get here:

· Minimum College Diploma with 3 years experience

· Bachelor’s degree in Business Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

· Understanding of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook

· Good prioritization skills and the ability to multi-task

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Strong influencing skills

· Problem solving skills

Preferred Additional Requirements/Qualifications

· Supplier/vendor management experience

· APICS certification (CPIM, CIRM, CSCP)

· Experience using SQL Server or COGNOS